DEPARTMENT: Health
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 5
SUBJECT:
An ordinance authorizing the submission of a planning grant application to the U.S. Department of Justice for participation in the FY17 Safe and Thriving Communities Grant and the acceptance of funds in an amount of $333,000.00 for an 18 month planning period beginning October 1, 2017 and authorizing a personnel complement of one (1) full time position.
SUMMARY:
This ordinance is authorizing the submission of a planning grant application to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for participation in the FY17 Safe and Thriving Communities Grant and the acceptance of funds in an amount of $333,000.00 for an 18 month period beginning October 1, 2017 and authorizing a personnel complement of one (1) full time position.
The above referenced request for funding includes a program description and abstract, with a narrative detailing need and letters of support from various San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) partners, a map of the projected location where programming will take place and a projected budget. In San Antonio, the areas with the highest rates of violence in the city are the near west, near east, southeast and northeast sides. This grant will initially focus efforts on the near west side.
Since March 1, 2014 the San Antonio Police Department and Metro Health have partnered to bring a community-based violence prevention program (Stand Up San Antonio) to neighborhoods in the city with high violent crime rates. Since then, the Police Department and other community partners have designed and implemented additional important initiatives aimed at addressing the root causes of violence as well as mitigating the effects of violence on these communities. This planning grant will give us an opportunity to work with our community violence-p...
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